ITEM: FP1763L

sbdevice: unable to open file, value too large to

Question:

PROBLEM SUMMARY:
sbdevice: unable to open file, value too large to

Env:
  AIX 4.2.1
  RISC J30
  sysback 4.1.4.3

Problem:
  Customer backups up about 18gb filesystem using the 
  mkjfsback command and then tries to restore that
  filesystem

  He gets this error message:

  sbdevice: cannot open sysback_images (f/s name)
  sbdevice: unable to open file, value too large to 
            store in data type.

I had the customer do this:

cd /usr/sbin
cp sysrestore sysrestore.bak

vi sysrestore

Find this line:

        runcommand "sbdevice -q $dev" "" $hostname

And comment it out

\#        runcommand "sbdevice -q $dev" "" $hostname

Now the command works.

Questions:

Do we need to run the sbdevice command against a file?
If so then we will need to create a large enabled version
of this file.


CLOSED by tj on 04/23/98 16:18:
A 4.2 verison of sbdevice will be included int he software 
package and automatically installed if Sysback is installed on 
a 4.2 or later system.



Support Line: sbdevice: unable to open file, value too large to ITEM: FP1763L

Dated: April 1998 Category: N/A

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